1. "Monkey Shines"
   "Deadly Friend"
2. "Carrie"

"Carrie" is based on the novel by Stephen King.

1. "Scream"
   "Last House on the Left"
2. "Silent Night, Deadly Night"

"Scream" launched a franchise of self-referential horror films.

1. "The Exorcist"
   "The Omen"
2. "Rosemary's Baby"

"Rosemary's Baby" is an unsettling slice of Satanic horror.

1. "Sharknado"
   "Jaws"
2. "It Came from Beneath the Sea"

The robotic shark used for some scenes in "Jaws" was named Bruce by the crew.

1. "Night of the Demon"
   "I Spit on Your Grave"
2. "Suspiria"

"Suspiria" was directed by Dario Argento.

1. "House"
   "Poltergeist"
2. "Hell House"

Some of the cast of "Poltergeist" suffered tragic deaths in the years after the movie was released, creating the legend of the "Poltergeist" curse.

1. "The Shining"
   "The Dark Half"
2. "The Ninth Gate"

Stephen King wasn't thrilled with director Stanley Kubrick's interpretation of his novel, "The Shining."

1. "Nightbreed"
   "Hellraiser"
2. "Blade"

"Hellraiser" was directed by author Clive Barker.

1. "House of Wax"
   "The Silence of the Lambs"
2. "Psycho"

"The Silence of the Lambs" is the rare horror film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

1. "I Walked with a Zombie"
   "White Zombie"
2. "Night of the Living Dead"

"Night of the Living Dead" is the movie that introduced the modern zombie and launched the zombie craze that's still raging today.

1. "Dreamcatcher"
   "Friday the 13th"
2. "A Nightmare on Elm Street"

Sardonic killer Freddy Krueger and the "Nightmare on Elm Street" movies became a successful horror franchise.

1. "Deliverance"
   "The Stepfather"
2. "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"

Leatherface is the terrifying antagonist of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

1. "The Stuff"
   "X the Unknown"
2. "The Thing"

John Carpenter's "The Thing" was the second film based on the John W. Campbell Jr. novella "Who Goes There?"

1. "Suburbia"
   "Transylvania 6-5000"
2. "Fright Night"

"Fright Night" is considered a horror-comedy, but it has some genuinely menacing and scary moments.

1. "Frenzy"
   "Halloween"
2. "Maniac"

John Carpenter's "Halloween" is one of the all-time greatest horror films.

1. "The Fearless Vampire Killers"
   "Tales from the Dark Side"
2. "Blood Feast"

"Blood Feast" was the first movie to focus on gore and blood as a way to attract audiences.

1. "Phantasm"
   "The Exorcist"
2. "Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things"

The pervasive atmosphere of dread and hopelessness makes "The Exorcist" a horror classic.

1. "Child's Play"
   "Puppet Master"
2. "Dolls"

"Puppet Master" was one of the big successes of the direct-to-video horror market.

1. "Nosferatu"
   "Blackula"
2. "Horror of Dracula"

"Nosferatu" is one of the first film versions of the "Dracula" tale, although it was unauthorized, so the character's names have been changed from the novel.

1. "The Wicker Man"
   "And Now the Screaming Starts!"
2. "Carnival of Souls"

"The Wicker Man" builds horror by emphasizing how the investigator is an outsider, the only character who doesn’t know what's going on even as events unfold around him.

1. "Predator"
   "Enemy Mine"
2. "Alien"

Ridley's Scott's "Alien" shows how effective blending sci-fi and horror can be.

1. "Dawn of the Dead"
   "Dead Snow"
2. "Shocker"

Both the 1978 original and the remake of "Dawn of the Dead" are effective and brutal critiques of consumer culture.

1. "The Monster Squad"
   "House of Dracula"
2. "Bride of Frankenstein"

"Bride of Frankenstein" delivers more emotional depth than you might expect from a monster movie.

1. "Exorcismus"
   "Insidious"
2. "Sinister"

"Sinister" features a deeply unsettling musical score.

1. "Crucible of Terror"
   "The Abominable Dr. Phibes"
2. "I, Monster"

"The Abominable Dr. Phibes" features Vincent Price in one of his classic horror roles.

1. "April Fool's Day"
   "Valentine"
2. "The Sorority House Massacre"

"April Fool's Day" is the slasher film that isn’t really a slasher film.

1. "13 Ghosts"
   "The Amityville Horror"
2. "The House on Haunted Hill"

"The Amityville Horror" is based on a book that was revealed to be a hoax, but it's still an effective horror movie.

1. "Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland"
   "Halloween H20: 20 Years Later"
2. "Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan"

"Friday the 13th Part VIII" is maybe not the worst movie of the series, but it's close.

1. "Halloween III: Season of the Witch"
   "Witchfinder General"
2. "The Blair Witch Project"

"Halloween III" is maligned for deviating from the Halloween series' Michael Myers storyline, but it is a disturbing, gory horror film in its own right.

1. "The Legend of Boggy Creek"
   "The Mothman Prophecies"
2. "Stir of Echoes"

"The Mothman Prophecies" greatly exaggerates a spate of strange occurrences in the 1960s. Nevertheless, it's a creepy supernatural thriller.